The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-16
p,lL ARP's LETTER,
RAILROAD COMMISSION NV
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.,,nsAsjby Special 77resH'"'f -,
f',Wh When told an Atlanta fr.ent tEa.
w.. on my way to Savannah, he
ID. n qWell, you will like Savannah,
s sss is mighty pretty little town.'
-, ,sed to think that Augusta was the
',ettiest city in the State and !
pp,yep't changed my mind SO far as
"' .oue things are concerned. Her
a.oad street and Green street, her
,noncitude and latitude, her aristo-
'r 'ratic dignity. her canal and factories,
r rey beautiful river and her delightful
Innate, and, more than all, her
'.,andard men and queenly wemen
save made an impression upon NE
,bot n is akin to reverence, When !
',ss 4 Young man and was merehan-
Using in an unpretending town J
nought my goods in Augusta and was
amiIiar with her old historic names.
, had great respect for the Gonlds
and Buckleys and StovalIs and Bar
setts and Butts and TUFTS and Plumb
and Rones and Brown and Hnnd and
williams and many Others. Ny good
fs,her taught me to respect them,
and he had the most confiding faith
IN their integrity "They will not
ahsat you, my son. he said. 'Ihey
are all honorable. Christian gentle
men " But the biggest thing about
Augusta to me was q select schooi
,hat was conducted there by MIR. and
Mrs. Chapman. Well, | was not so
mucb interested in the school as |
was in one of the scholars-~and she
Is sitting in the other corner now
with her gold spectacles on. sewing
away. and ever and anon going up
stairs to see how the sick grandnhild
is getting on. or course | have pleas
ant memories of Agusta.
And the beautiful city OF Savannah
has strong ancestral claims upon me,
TOO, for my father located there in
his early manho ood and taught school, +,
and my mother was one of his pupils.
What u world Of events--great events
-,haye happened since then! As !
wandered along the bay and through
the parks, my mind went back in Il
wakeful dream to the time when my
Darants walked in these same ways
and looked npOn these scenes and
had bright and anxious hopes OF
their own future. Savannah is really
alovely city, and impressed ne much
more than expected. 1t Is city OF
parks and monuments. Those parks
surprise you as you go around from
street to street. and they are thronged
with happy children playing among
the flowers and evergreens. the
founders of this city had a love for
the beautiful and their successors
had high patriotic emotions, for they
have built monuments to their heroic
dead and shown their reverence for
Oglethorpe and Pulaski and Green
and Jasper. Everything indicates
abundant wealth and prosperity
The ground that few years ago was
her suburbs is now fast filling up
with beautiful residences. In the
heart of the city the old-tme honorcd
business houses are giving place to
modern structures that are elegant
and costly. | saw a lot, vacant lot,
that was upon q corner, sell for So
600, and it was only thirty feet front.
The Central system of railroads has
dOue wonders Tor Savannah. "A
friend took me all around through
the Immense warehouses, where Il
half million bales of cotton are han
died, and thousands of tons Of gilaho
are stored, and millions of feet OF
lumber are shipped. saw the great
steamships that belong to the Central
and went aboard the Nacoochee and
was shown all through her apart
ments by Captain Kempton. She is
marvel of strength and beauty, and
her great elevators that are operated
by steam were bringing up and dis
charging her cargo, while scores OF
negroes moved it up to the wharf.
"What is that great pile of pig-iron
doing there?" said l. "Ah, that Is
our ballast" said the captain. "We
have to lower that into the hold to
steady the ship. Our cargo now GO
Ing north is mainly of light weight,
such as Florida fruits and vegetables,